mutt - Unix, Linux Command

NAME

mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent

SYNOPSIS

mutt [-nRyzZ] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file]

mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-a file] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] addr [...]

mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -p

mutt -v[v]

DESCRIPTION

Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading electronic mail under unix operating systems, including support color terminals, MIME, and a threaded sorting mode.

OPTIONS

Tag	Description
-a file	Attach a file to your message using MIME.
-b address	Specify a blind-carbon-copy (BCC) recipient
-c address	Specify a carbon-copy (CC) recipient
-e command	Specify a configuration command to be run after processing of initialization files.
-f mailbox	Specify which mailbox to load.
-F muttrc	Specify an initialization file to read instead of ~/.muttrc
-h	Display help.
-H draft	Specify a draft file which contains header and body to use to send a message.
-i include	Specify a file to include into the body of a message.
-m type	specify a default mailbox type
-n	Causes Mutt to bypass the system configuration file.
-p	Resume a postponed message.
-R	Open a mailbox in read-only mode.
-s subject	Specify the subject of the message.
-v	Display the Mutt version number and compile-time definitions.
-x	Emulate the mailx compose mode.
-y	Start Mutt with a listing of all mailboxes specified by the mailboxes command.
-z	When used with -f, causes Mutt not to start if there are no messages in the mailbox.
-Z	Causes Mutt to open the first mailbox specified by the mailboxes command which contains new mail, or exit immediately if none.

ENVIRONMENT

Tag	Description
EDITOR	Specifies the editor to use if VISUAL is unset.
EMAIL	The user’s e-mail address.
HOME	Full path of the user’s home directory.
MAIL	Full path of the user’s spool mailbox.
MAILDIR	Full path of the user’s spool mailbox. Commonly used when the spool mailbox is a maildir (5) folder.
MAILCAPS	Path to search for mailcap files.
MM_NOASK	If this variable is set, mailcap are always used without prompting first.
PGPPATH	Directory in which the user’s PGP public keyring can be found.
TMPDIR	Directory in which temporary files are created.
REPLYTO	Default Reply-To address.
VISUAL	Specifies the editor to use when composing messages.

FILES

Tag	Description
~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc	User configuration file.
/etc/Muttrc	System-wide configuration file.
/tmp/muttXXXXXX	Temporary files created by Mutt.
~/.mailcap	User definition for handling non-text MIME types.
/etc/mailcap	System definition for handling non-text MIME types.
~/.mime.types	User’s personal mapping between MIME types and file extensions.
/etc/mime.types	System mapping between MIME types and file extensions.
/usr/bin/mutt_dotlock	The privileged dotlocking program.
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/manual.txt	The Mutt manual.

BUGS

None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.

FLEAS

Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external editor does not work under SunOS 4.x if you use the curses lib in /usr/5lib. It does work with the S-Lang library, however.

Resizing the screen while using an external pager causes Mutt to go haywire on some systems.

suspend/resume does not work under Ultrix.

The help line for the index menu is not updated if you change the bindings for one of the functions listed while Mutt is running.

For a more up-to-date list of bugs, errm, fleas, please visit the mutt project’s bug tracking system. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) program.

NO WARRANTIES

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

AUTHOR

Michael Elkins, and others. Use <[email protected]> to contact the developers.

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